Henry A. Kissinger

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Who controls money controls the world.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The elderly are useless eaters.

— Henry A. Kissinger

In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

— Henry A. Kissinger

Let us fashion together a new world order.

— Henry A. Kissinger

How to Achieve The New World Order

— Henry A. Kissinger

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

— Henry A. Kissinger

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

— Henry A. Kissinger

You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.

— Henry A. Kissinger

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

— Henry A. Kissinger

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will…

— Henry A. Kissinger

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public…

— Henry A. Kissinger

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road;…

— Henry A. Kissinger

When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Everybody who has dealt with China over an extended period of time has come to more or less the same conclusions. There…

— Henry A. Kissinger

To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to…

— Henry A. Kissinger

China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years.…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially…

— Henry A. Kissinger

In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I am against portraying China as the demon of the global community. China has grasped more quickly than other countries what globalization…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war…

— Henry A. Kissinger